Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...song written by his father Frank L. Stanton. for many years a contributing editor to the Atlanta Constitution. Frank junior, an executive in a furniture concern, was driving to Jacksonville, Fla. with his wife and 5-year-old daughter. Dorothy. The car struck a bridge abutment and burst into flames. Mrs. Stanton was killed instantly, her husband died a few hours later. The child was uninjured...
...could get him a job. The Nunezes were very happy, and Senora Nicholosa Nunez made a big mess of barley tortillas to celebrate. The Deloas and Bernardo Ries joined in, and some strangers appeared to dance and wish them luck. The four Nunez children ate until they nearly burst. The two Deloa children, being guests, were more mannerly. That was lucky for them. For in a few days everyone who had eaten at Nicholosa Nunez's banquet had the gripes, the Nunezes worst of all. Everyone's feet ached. Everyone suffered from strangury...
Hours later Police Officer George Harbottle saw a closed car speeding toward him on the eastern outskirts of Honolulu. He flagged it. It whizzed by. He chased it in his police car two miles, five miles, ten miles, firing random shots at the tires. Finally in a burst of speed he edged in front of it, forced it to nose into an embankment. Opening its door he found a grey-haired, middle-aged woman at the wheel, a trim, nice-looking young man beside her. In the back seat sat another young man and, beside him, a mummy-like thing...
...comforts. He will study at prim, red-roofed California Institute of Technology and the Mount Wilson Observatory for the next two months. Professor Willem de Sitter, another cosmologist, will study with him. Meanwhile in Washington met the American Astronomical Society for its annual interpretation of the heavens. Solar Burst Dr. Ross Gunn of the Naval Research Laboratory offered a hypothesis that the solar system is composed of the self-adhering fragments of a star which exploded of its own accord. The prevailing hypothesis is Dr. Forest Ray Moulton's as modified by Sir James Hopwood Jeans, namely, that...
...been a lean year for everyone," said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald with suppressed emotion. Then, faced by the conference that is to meet Jan. 18 to do something about Reparations (see p. 7), he burst out, "For God's sake let us meet...